The main symptoms of COVID-19 are a high temperature and a new, continuous cough. Other symptoms include an inability to taste or smell, body aches, red eyes, runny nose and even hallucinations. Linda Lusardi made headlines when she tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalised. She has now made a full recovery from coronavirus and is healthy and back home. Her account of what she endured when the virus was at the peak is stuff of nightmares. What lesser-known symptoms should we be aware of?

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Linda Lusardi, 61, was left fighting for her life requiring oxygen. Her husband Sam was also diagnosed with coronavirus.

Linda spoke to The Sun about the horrific symptoms she experienced and said: “I started to get a fever, feeling rough and carried on, but it got worse and worse.

“Your head hurts, your brain hurts, and you feel like an elephant is sitting on you.”

Linda revealed how her symptoms became more intense and left her crawling to the bathroom.

“I remember crawling to the bathroom putting my face on the tile floor and then almost trying to make myself sick just to get a light relief for five minutes afterwards.

“I was leaning over the edge of the bed coughing and spitting into a bucket. My vomit was blue.”

Linda revealed her family were left in despair as they watched how much agony she was in.

Problems with digestion, including diarrhoea, vomiting and loss of appetite could be a symptom of coronavirus, a study has found.

The study involved 204 patients in Wuhan and found that a whopping 48.5 percent went to hospital with digestive issues as their main ailment.

The majority of these people had no underlying digestive diseases.

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The main symptoms for patients exhibiting digestive issues were 83 percent having a loss of appetite and 29 percent having diarrhoea.

Other digestive issues included vomiting with a 0.8 percent and abdominal pain with 0.4 percent.

Most of the patients tested also experienced respiratory issues, such as a persistent dry cough or trouble breathing including digestive issues.

Only seven patients in the study showed only digestive symptoms.

For anyone concerned about possible symptoms, the NHS said: “If you need medical help for any reason, do not go to places like a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

“If you have symptoms of coronavirus including high temperature or a new, continuous cough, use the 111 coronavirus service.”